Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wave of intolerance that is sweeping the country, many of the measures proposed to extirpate Red propaganda are so extreme as to be ridiculous. On the heels of the expulsion of the lawfully constituted Socialist party from the New York Assembly comes the notice in yesterday's "Times" that "a movement to bar Socialists from the law schools of New York State and to withhold diplomas from those Socialists now students in the schools was begun yesterday at the annual meeting of the New York State Association of Legal Instructors, consisting of teachers from the nine law schools...
...commenting on the wave of extravagance sweeping over the world, he said the time is coming when Europe and America must foot the bill. Both, he declared, have spent not only their accumulated wealth, but their present-day finances and the money they anticipate for years to come...
...time when Socialists are suspended from the New York assembly and the term "Red" so often applied in hit-or-miss fashion to those who venture to voice their ideas, it is satisfactory to note that this wave of general hysteria and intolerance has not reached Boston artistic circles and that there is no agitation to prevent Kreisler's concert in Symphony Hall tomorrow. The wave of feeling against him which spread over the country during the fall was a disgrace to the intelligence of the American people. Even more ridiculous were the arguments which this controversy called forth...